The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-24
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
Projected College for the Physical Training
of Girls-Latest Amateur Photography.
A Tramp Trip for Women.

lett the city this morning. Itcomprlsed halt
dozen members artist whose name Is not
unknown. with his wife. headinglthe group. and
accompanied by quartet of girls in their early
twenties, two of Thorn being pupils OF the Art
Students League. The SIX are en- route for the
Catskills. but they will not the sun rise from
the plateau in front of the Mountain House to-
morrow morning. They purpose 20 be any
whore from week to month on the road. In
word, they going to walk
tramp trip through some of the most beauti-
ful-though it may not arrogate to itself the title
grandest-scenery in the East is what the party.
largely feminine has in mind. Taking boat
from New York to New Brunswick. the pedes-
TRANS will have look at the Orange and Ram
apo hills swinging round to the Delaware
Watergap and working their way by easy
stages north through the Shawangunks-
better worth knowing, If less known, than
the rest Of the Catskills-and so on, to whatever
final destination fancy may direct them, walk
ing in the cool of the morning and in the late
afternoon, sleeping in farm houses or in an oc-
casional barn il the hay mows happen to be
piled soft and high and the watchdog be not too
/ attentive. Baggage has been limited to small.
lightweight canvas bag swung by leather straps
over the shoulders of each. and the object of the
jaunt is the enjoyment, pure and simple of lapse
ing that Poultney Bgelow will get
account of the undertaking with sheaf of
sketches for Outing in the fall.
The women Of the party. 1.-The gallant five" as
the home -stayers dub Them, have adopted
coutraments for tho tramp skirts of brown serge.
undraped, light possible and short, Just
reaching to the tops of high walking boots made
for the occasion; blouse waists with scarlet
sashes for picturesque effect, brown sailor hats
with scarlet RIBBONS. oil of penny boyal for mos
quito bites and plenty of pluck to last them the
journey through. Alpenstocks dispensed
with and parasos left at home. the old heat
remedy of handful of broad wet leaves in the
hat being relied on for duty in time of need.
Such trip afoot is not a usual vacation out
ing for a woman, but if the project in
temptation for College of Physical Training
for girls in Now York goes through. it may the
future be much matter of course it has
been in the past ont of the course. The pro-
posed school, the place of which exists in the
minds OF some of the best known promoters of
physical training In the country, will be, if
opened. unique in design and scope. A
desirable uptown West-sid corner has
been spotted" to speak. money has been
promised for the undertaking by some of the
Vanderbilt connections, more Is expected from
one or Two of New York's rich women who
have the prospects OF girls at heart and it would
not be surprising If building were commenced
within brief period. Dr. Mary Taylor Bsseli,
sister of the president OF Vassar, who is in
charge of girls gymnasium in the city is in
terested in the project. and though nothing is
definitely concluded the outlook is favorable.
So far as any plans have been precisely fornu-
lated, the design of the new school will be to dis
pei the popuar notion that the ill-heath of
women is ratural-that they the victims of
function whose exercise necessarily constitutes
a sort of invalidism. The girls entering will be
treated according to Dio Lewis's old theory that
the microscopic misses who about our
schools and chatter in our streets the curios-
tiles of high civilization" and that women
who give free play to their lungs and stomachs
ought to nearly as large men.
All pupils in this school of the future, which
may be school sof the present within a year,
will be subjected TO daily regimen with
fully apportioned exercise. with a view of de-
termining the possibility of improving their
bodies as the bodies of young men improved
in the German gymnasia. full curriculum of
studios. probably of the academic or college
preparatory grade will be. it is thought,
adopted covering four years time.
Some restrictions to dress 1t is proposed
to adopt, not amounting to uniform but making
short loose. light attire. with pressure what
about the waist, and hygienic shoes com
pulsory, leaving the girls all day long as much
at liberty boys in their gymnasium dress.
Pupils will be measured entering, and an
average gain of two and nalf inches about
the chest. five inches about the waist. and
half inches about the arm and inch about
the forearm is what is looked forward as
the desirable result of the first years bodily
training and exercise of the typical slim girl
of seventeen.
That such school would succeed D1o
Lewiss experiments at Lexington years ago dem
onsrrated Whether the plan. at present
entertained. becomes anything than a
plan or not, there is no reason why the average
woman should not add ten fold to her enjoyment
of life and outcf-door living by cultvatng the
noble art of walking delicate woman, prop
erly dressed, and who knows how to walk can
walk twenty-five miles of summer after
without injury when equivalent
amount of other exercise might produce serious
injury Walking is the natural aud normal ex-
ercise, and hurts no woman who sets rightly
aboutlt woman who Is unaccustomed to
vigorous walking in order to become a good
pedestrian, should look first to her shoes. These
should be broad across the forward part of the
foot. Offering not the least obstruction
to the free movement of the toes. The
the shoe should fit rather snugy about the heel
and instep. The full dress equipment should
weigh upon honest scales not more than two and
half or three pounds, and should hang from the
shoulders without any band, pinned or buttoned
laced about the waist. No woman walk
in a corset The walker must be comfortable
enough to be unconscious of her attire. 4 hat
that shades the eyes is in order.
So prepared. try any distance that does not
prove fatiguiDg initial experiment. 1t will
probably be from a mile and a half to TWO miles,
and must be walked at a brisk pace three miles
and a half an hour being good limit When
this be done without back ache or foot weari-
ness, and well woman ought to have difficult
ty at her first trial, increase the distance during
the leisure days of the summer vacation daily,
main tanning the same gait and fifteen miles
day for week fortnight in succession. TWEEN
ty-five miles on any occasion that demands it
will be found within any ordinary capacity with q
month six weeks training.
Women will never make the time of pedes-
TRANS of the other sex. There is no need of
their doing it. though Bertha Won Hill
lern. veiieye, can maintain pace of six miles
hour. But three miles and a half as a
standard, with four cow and then, is not only
what every woman II she tries but what she
ought, fully developed human being, to be
able to maintain for several hours at q stretch.
Then tramp trips would be not only common
but among the most enjoyable of vacation out
ings known. ELIZA PUTNAM HEATIoN.
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